Itzel Areli Estrada JustoWhat type of student do you have to teach?Students may have to learn how to use different learning strategies, such as memorization, instruction, demonstration and error-correction, but students appear to have different ways of categorization and modeling: not all strategies give the same results for all students Authors have suggested that students have different ways of categorization and modeling. Students that are holists take an overview of a subject first and then pay attention in details and concepts in their own way. Serialists like to follow an order of a subject.Gordon Pask realized an experiment which consisted of preparing materials in both holist and serialist manner, and then he tested sorted cohorts of students that used the materials. He concluded that the best performance was of those students who were mismatched: holist students that worked with seralist material and vice versa. This appears to indicate that textbooks should make a combination of holist and serialist materials with the aim of being useful for both kinds of students.Another sort of students may be defined as visualizers because their learning is helped by using diagrams, pictures, flow-charts, films, etcetera: they have to see to understand. Others are verbalizers, who prefer to listen, read, discuss, argue and write during their conceptual development. The last type that we will discuss is doers, these students prefer to start by the practice; doers are probably not very good at memorizing by reading, but if students take theory to practice, they will remember easily.If students want to succeed in their education by using understanding and memorization, they probably have to adopt a deep approach. Teachers have been working hard trying to choice the finest teaching method that fit to their students because they avoid assuming that a class is a homogeneous bunch: all students may be different, some of them need more attention and explanations than the rest of the group; and not all students understand topics with the same example given by the professor.